An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

Everybody has their reasons.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

It's with my brush that I make love.